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The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art - Softcover

Fulcher, Jane

 
9780521529433: The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

Synopsis

Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.

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Book Description

French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state.

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